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Does anyone here have a SomethingAwful account?

I'm really curious about the site, mostly for playdating for old games, hobbist gamedev or general discussion without Gundato and Nalano. Does anyone here have an account and can explain if it's worth it?

At the moment the Something Awful forums can be viewed even if you don't have an account, so I'd simply recommend you lurk the Games forum for a while and see for yourself if it is to your liking. Personally, I'd call it a mixed bag, there's a lot of genuinely interesting and valuable information on there, but it's often obfuscated by pointless bickering and white noise. Though to be fair, the same criticism could be made of any sufficiently large Internet forum.

A small warning, SA moderates very strictly. Lack of proper grammar, racist/sexist remarks and general low-effort posts are very likely to get you banned. Though this also means that discussions tend to be fairly civil most of the time.

I'm really curious about the site, mostly for playdating for old games, hobbist gamedev or general discussion without Gundato and Nalano. Does anyone here have an account and can explain if it's worth it?

I doubt you'd survive there, you apparently can't even grasp the rules here.

You bans should have been permanent, and the fact that you continue to derail threads by backseat unmoderating and making passive-agressive attacks only serves to underscore the point. Your behaviour is indeed, unexcellent.

And how is fixating on a small faux pas in honest presentation of opinion as a violation of the rules as your first and sole contribution to a thread excellent? Yet you do this repeatedly.

But we've all seen this thread mutliple times and I'm sure it'll be locked soon.

SA is a pretty good place. It's moderated, which means you can be picked up for doing silly shit like using poor grammar, but overall it greatly increases the quality of the posting and Games tends to be an excellent resource all around. Just don't take it as a whole site, moreso than RPS there are specific subforums which are entertaining and informative and others which are 'metahumour' or otherwise less than useful.

The point at which you directly quoted, replied to and named me, obviously.

Originally Posted by Kadayi

So saying something is unexcellent, is in itself unexcellent? Or is it only when I say it's unexcellent?

If you're trying to comment on the hypocrisy of pointing out your unexcellence, perhaps you would also like to explain that the sky is blue, water is wet and somehow a large proportion of threads in which you appear to get derailed.

Or maybe you'd like a gold star for pointing out the obvious.

Of course because I have no further relevant information to add to this discussion at this point, this too is a bad post. In fact a worse post.